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Open Courts Act of 2020 This bill requires the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to establish a single electronic system for all public court records that is publicly accessible for free. Under the existing Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system, users are charged fees for accessing court documents. To fund the development of the new consolidated system, the Judicial Conference must temporarily establish a schedule of additional fees for higher-volume nongovernmental users of PACER. To fund the operations of the new system, the Judicial Conference shall collect an annual fee from each federal agency equal to that agency's PACER fees in 2018, adjusted for inflation. The Judicial Conference may also establish reasonable filing fees based on specified factors, including the extent of a person's use and the interests of justice.
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2020 · fourth_quarter · Media (information/publishing)
Issues of interest to the information industries; access to public record information; general data, privacy, government security and data security policy issues; development of federal data privacy legislation; H.R. 8235, the Open Courts Act of 2020, and S. 4988, the Open Courts Act of 2020.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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